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20162025
most citedUnsupervised Ensemble Ranking of Terms in Electronic Health Record Notes Based on Their Importance to Patients

21 citations

6 papers

cs.AI2025

ChatCLIDS: Simulating Persuasive AI Dialogues to Promote Closed-Loop Insulin Adoption in Type 1 Diabetes Care

Zonghai Yao, Talha Chafekar, Junda Wang +5

Real-world adoption of closed-loop insulin delivery systems (CLIDS) in type 1 diabetes remains low, driven not by technical failure, but by diverse behavioral, psychosocial, and so…

cs.CL2025

Enhancing LLMs for Identifying and Prioritizing Important Medical Jargons from Electronic Health Record Notes Utilizing Data Augmentation: A Comparative Study

Won Seok Jang, Sharmin Sultana, Zonghai Yao +4

OpenNotes gives patients access to their EHR notes, but dense medical jargon limits comprehension. We evaluate closed-source and open-source LLMs for extracting and prioritizing th…

cs.CL2022★ 5 cited

Context Variance Evaluation of Pretrained Language Models for Prompt-based Biomedical Knowledge Probing

Zonghai Yao, Yi Cao, Zhichao Yang +1

Pretrained language models (PLMs) have motivated research on what kinds of knowledge these models learn. Fill-in-the-blanks problem (e.g., cloze tests) is a natural approach for ga…

cs.IR2022★ 9 cited

Extracting Biomedical Factual Knowledge Using Pretrained Language Model and Electronic Health Record Context

Zonghai Yao, Yi Cao, Zhichao Yang +2

Language Models (LMs) have performed well on biomedical natural language processing applications. In this study, we conducted some experiments to use prompt methods to extract know…

cs.CL2017★ 21 cited

Unsupervised Ensemble Ranking of Terms in Electronic Health Record Notes Based on Their Importance to Patients

Jinying Chen, Hong Yu

Background: Electronic health record (EHR) notes contain abundant medical jargon that can be difficult for patients to comprehend. One way to help patients is to reduce information…

cs.CL2016★ 3 cited

Building an Evaluation Scale using Item Response Theory

John P. Lalor, Hao Wu, Hong Yu

Evaluation of NLP methods requires testing against a previously vetted gold-standard test set and reporting standard metrics (accuracy/precision/recall/F1). The current assumption…